Fugla heiti — Þul Fugla^III

This þula (Þul Fugla) enumerates various heiti for ‘birds’, and it is recorded in ms. A of Skm (SnE). Ms. B contains only the heading, Fugla heiti ‘Names for birds’ (which is illegible in A), and the first four lines of stanza 1 (the ms. breaks off after hel- in helsingr). This is the last list of heiti in the þulur-sequence in B. A noticeable feature found in most stanzas of this þula is the arrangement of heiti according to a formal criterion, namely, alliteration (cf. the similar arrangement of heiti in Þul Skipa sts 5, 6/1-4, 7, 9, Þul Eyja st. 2, etc.). Kock (NN §3140) calls attention to the fact that certain lines in this þula are hypermetrical, perhaps owing to later additions of new heiti. In both mss, Þul Fugla is preceded by Þul Ara and it is followed by Þul Kvenna II in ms. A. There is no list of heiti for ‘birds’ in LaufE (LaufE 1979, 268: fugla heiti vantar ‘names for birds are missing’), but many of the heiti from the present þula are recorded in RE 1665(Ff) along with heiti that are not in the þula. There can be no doubt that the list was taken from a ms. related to A (or to A and B), but the spelling of the heiti is in most cases so garbled that RE 1665 is of little value for the reconstruction of obscure forms.

References

1. Bibliography
2. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
3. LaufE 1979 = Faulkes, Anthony, ed. 1979. Edda Magnúsar Ólafssonar (Laufás Edda). RSÁM 13. Vol. I of Two Versions of Snorra Edda from the 17th Century. Reykjavík: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar, 1977-9.
4. Internal references
5. Edith Marold 2017, ‘Snorra Edda (Prologue, Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál)’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols [check printed volume for citation].
6. (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=112> (accessed 26 April 2024)
7. Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Skipa heiti’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 861. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3208> (accessed 26 April 2024)
8. Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Ara heiti’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 949. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3240> (accessed 26 April 2024)
9. Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Kvenna heiti ókend’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 959. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3242> (accessed 26 April 2024)
10. Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Eyja heiti’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 972. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3247> (accessed 26 April 2024)
11. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Laufás Edda’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=10928> (accessed 26 April 2024)